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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Bengal BJP Is Desperate In Getting Out Of Present Mess Before Panchayat Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which...
Legal Position On Moonlighting In Indian Workplaces Is Unclear
By G. S. Bajpai and Neha Kapur Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which shook the world, changes in employment patterns have become apparent. Flourishing sectors with dynamic work environments suffered jerks and trembled with fewer jobs, high prices and minimal demand. In the wake of the...
Time For Modi Govt To Shift More To Russian Oil And Contain Inflation
By Subrata Majumder, Oil is the second biggest energy for India. It accounts for 29 percent of total energy in the country. Although coal is the biggest energy, oil is more sensitive to inflation as it impacts directly on the common people. Nearly 65 percent of oil is used...
Déjà Vu Over Nirmala Sitharaman’s Rupee’s Weakness Against Dollar
By K Raveendran We haven’t had any ‘pearls of wisdom’ from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for quite some time. But her latest one on rupee that the Indian currency’s problems are basically because the dollar is strengthening rather than the rupee weakening makes up for the longer than normal...
Mallikarjun Kharge Has To Focus All His Energy On Winning Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty To think that the Congress-led UPA was ruling India till just eight years ago is unbelievable. Looks like eight years were a lifetime for the Congress. An exodus of sorts has emptied the Congress of known faces. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had to reestablish the...
AAP Resorting To Competitive Hindutva Against BJP Is Ominous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal has increasingly been becoming blind to the communal politics in India since 2014 when he could see the evils of both corruption and communalism, but now he does not see any of those quagmires. Many AAP leaders are...
Besides Indian Origin, Rishi Sunak Is Also A Big Player In Crypto Market
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A former hedge fund manager, Rishi Sunak is a big crypto bull. He wants the UK to become the crypto hub of the world. He is of Indian origin and most Indians are happy at Sunak becoming the Prime Minister of a country that ruled...
Indian Political Parties Should Ensure Health As A Fundamental Right
By Dr Arun Mitra Democracy is a means to decide how we want to be governed. To woo the voters political parties therefore decide their agenda which they feel will fetch them votes to reach the seat of power. They give populist slogans, whether they can fulfill them or...
Legal Experts Want Review Of Supreme Court Verdict On Kerala VC
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court verdict quashing the appointment of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University VC over violation of UGC norms should be reviewed, opined former Lok Sabha Secretary-General and constitutional expert PDT Achary. Achary said the judgment should be subjected to a review as the...
Controversy Is Natural With Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan
By Harihar Swarup It was a tweet that shouldn’t have surprised anyone who has followed the feud between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan and the CPI(M)-led Left Democrat Front (LDF) Government. “The CM and council of Ministers have every right to advice the Governor. But the statements of individual...
As Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak Won’t Change The Course For The Tories
By Phil Burton-Cartledge Since November last year, the UK’s ruling Conservative Party has been gripped by rebellion, chaos, and a collapse in popular support. Be it revelations that Boris Johnson partied in Downing Street while the nation groaned under the weight of COVID restrictions or Liz Truss’s tax cuts...
Fast Expanding Middle Class Consumers Are Set To Transform India’s Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee Consumers in India are buying like never before. With the spectre of covid-19 pandemic nearly gone, the country’s middle class consumers seems to have approached the ongoing festival season with vengeance. They are sparing practically nothing — from liquor to fashion wear, consumer durables, smart phones,...
Will The Rishi Sunak Factor Forever Change Politics In India?
By Sushil Kutty And just like that India split down the middle. This time for what happened 5-and-a-half-hour behind India time. Half of India was rendered low, the other half on a high note. And this partition, too, had Britain at its core. Naming a Hindu PM-designate of the...
Indians Have To Be Prepared For Large Scale Job Cuts In Coming Days
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a “Rojgar Mela” (fair for distributing jobs) in Bhopal on October 22, 2022, with a great fanfare, propaganda, and photo-session for media coverage commending efforts of creating jobs in the country by his government in the last eight years. This...
Rishi Sunak Has The Toughest Task Now To Turn Around British Economy
By Arun Srivastava Boris Johnson is known for his excellent manoeuvring political skill. His rusticity has added to his charisma and this has been primarily the reason that Britons entrusted him to task to lead their country. Obviously the person who has put lot of efforts to build his...
Trinamool Government In Bengal Is On Backfoot Over Pending DA Payment To Its Staff
By Ashis Biswas Certain official decisions announcing better pay/allowances for their employees in the neighbouring states have caused major embarrassment to the West Bengal Government. As it is, the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) has for some years been facing the charge of being unsympathetic to state Government employees, because of...
The January 6 Capitol Hill Riot Was A Spectacular Failure Of US Security
By Branko Marcetic The security failure that led to the January 6 Capitol Hill riot in 2021 was always deeply weird. How was it that the vastest, most penetrating surveillance state in human history Unites States of America was taken by surprise? Why was law enforcement ― which responds...
Pakistan Is In Politico-Legal Turmoil Over Verdict On Imran Khan
By Sankar Ray The gloss of political triumph in the sweeping victory by the Pakistan-Teehreek-e-Insaaf in seven out of eight bye-elections to the National Assembly faded out by a technical knockout by the Election Commission of Pakistan. ECP disqualified the PTI chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan...
